Signal Staff Writer
jselva@the-signal.com
Posted: Nov. 25, 2009 3:25 p.m.
About 100 gallons of milk covered an area just off Interstate 5 in Gorman Wednesday morning after a tanker truck transporting the dairy load crashed, officials said.
At about 3:47 a.m., the truck carrying about 3,000 gallons of milk and traveling northbound on the freeway drifted onto the right shoulder, went over a dirt embankment, hit a barbed-wire fence and overturned, according to a California Highway Patrol report.
The collision occurred just south of Quail Lake Road, the report said.
A hazardous materials team responded to the spill and was still at the crash site as of noon Wednesday, said Los Angeles County Fire's inspector Matt Levesque.
The driver, a 33-year-old Bakersfield woman, was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, the report said.
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